Why does Twitter go down?
Over the last 24 hours Twitter has been down as much as it’s been up. As always this gives us a reason to think about what the world would be like without Twitter and then those of us who are engineers or would-be engineers, start thinking about ways to fix the [...]
Archive for January, 2008
31 Jan
Scripting News for 1/31/2008
31 Jan
Scripting News for 1/31/2008
Why does Twitter go down?
Over the last 24 hours Twitter has been down as much as it’s been up. As always this gives us a reason to think about what the world would be like without Twitter and then those of us who are engineers or would-be engineers, start thinking about ways to fix the [...]
29 Jan
Scripting News for 1/29/2008
FlickrFan belongs in schools
Lance Knobel: “I’d install FlickrFan in every middle school and high school social studies class. I guarantee it would provoke endless discussion and ensure engagement in the issues of the day.”
I totally agree. It would be great to see it at checkout lines in supermarkets and on kiosks in BART stations too.
Covering [...]
28 Jan
Scripting News for 1/28/2008
I’m a California voter for Obama
I’ve got an Obama poster in the right margin of the home page of Scripting News. It’ll stay there for the duration as a virtual equivalent of one of those signs people put on their front lawns. I live in California, one of the Super Tuesday states and I’m an [...]
27 Jan
Scripting News for 1/27/2008
Find a shared vision, v2.0
It was an interesting election until the Clintons started calling Obama the nice young African-American candidate. Yeah, I lived in the south long enough to understand what that means. When I went to Tulane I was often explained as soandso’s Jewish friend Dave. It meant that I could come over for [...]
26 Jan
Scripting News for 1/26/2008
Barack Obama for President
Don Park made a Barack Obama postage stamp.
Everybody’s diving bell
I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn’t want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I [...]
25 Jan
Scripting News for 1/25/2008
Tennessee Rex
Hammock: “My blog still doesn’t ‘carry’ advertising — it is advertising.”
8/3/06: “I have put ads on some of my sites, but never on Scripting News.”
Note that Mike Arrington, who started this thread, doesn’t have ads on Crunchnotes. Curious to know why no ads there. Screen shot.
24 Jan
Scripting News for 1/24/2008
$100 to Obama
Fed up with lies from the Clintons, I gave $100 to the Obama campaign.
I was totally on the fence until they started saying he said things he didn’t say. Maybe I could have ignored it if he hadn’t been saying things we need him to say, imho. The reason people running for office [...]
23 Jan
Scripting News for 1/23/2008
share.opml.org, retired
We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.
Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms, based on what you and others like, there would only be a [...]
22 Jan
Scripting News for 1/22/2008
The UGC limb, day 2
Following up on yesterday’s piece on UGC as a business model.
Lots of commenters, including John Furrier, who asked what I meant by: “We could and should be cutting more fair deals with the people who create the value on the net.”
Here’s what I meant…
We should be sharing more than kudos [...]
